Mrs.

Silecchia

Physical changes usually occur when heat (energy) is either added or

taken away. The substance is the same (NO CHANGE).

Example: Ice cube melting, ripping paper, cutting an apple in half

In a chemical change, the substances are changed chemically and display different physical
and chemical properties after the change.

Examples: combustion (burning), cooking an egg, rusting of an iron pan

Part A: Directions: Fill in the blanks: Chemical or Physical Changes

Crushing Rocks __________________________________

Condensation__________________________________

Baking a Cake __________________________________

Water freezes to produce ice, this means a _____________________ change has taken place.

When a piece of magnesium ribbon is placed into beaker containing hydrochloric acid bubbling is
observed, this means a ___________________ change has taken place.

Part B
Can you recognize the chemical and physical changes that happen all around us? If you change the way
something looks, but haven’t made a new substance, a physical change (P) has occurred. If the substance has
been changes into another substance, a chemical change (C) has occurred.

1. An ice cube is placed in the sun. Later there is a puddle of water. Later still the puddle is gone.

2. Two chemical are mixed together and a gas is produced.

3. A bicycle changes color as it rusts.

4. A solid is crushed to a powder.

5. Two substances are mixed and light is produced.

6. A piece of ice melts and reacts with sodium.

7. Mixing salt and pepper.

8. A marshmallow is toasted over a campfire.

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9. A marshmallow is cut in half.

Part C
Read each scenario. Decide whether a physical or chemical change has occurred and give evidence for your
decision. The first one has been done for you to use as an example.
Physical or
Scenario Chemical Evidence…
Change?
Umm! A student removes a loaf of bread hot No change in substances.
1. from the oven. The student cuts a slice off Physical No unexpected color change,
the loaf and spreads butter on it. temperature change or gas given off.
Your friend decides to toast a piece of
bread, but leaves it in the toaster too long.
2.
The bread is black and the kitchen if full of
smoke.
You forgot to dry the bread knife when you
3. washed it and reddish brown spots appeared
on it.
In baking biscuits and other quick breads,
the baking powder reacts to release carbon
4.
dioxide bubbles. The carbon dioxide bubbles
cause the dough to rise.
Chewing food to break it down into smaller
particles represents a _________ change,
5. but the changing of starch into sugars by
enzymes in the digestive system represents
a ___________change.

Part D: True (T) or False (F)

1. Changing the size and shapes of pieces of wood would be a chemical change.

2. In a physical change, the makeup of matter is changed.

3. Evaporation occurs when liquid water changes into a gas.

4. Evaporation is a physical change.

5. Burning wood is a physical change.

6. Combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water is a physical change.

7. Breaking up concrete is a physical change.

8. When ice cream melts, a chemical change occurs.

9. Acid rain damaging a marble statue is a physical change.